FRANCE 24 English published this video item, entitled “Musical legend Josephine Baker first black woman to enter France’s Pantheon • FRANCE 24 English” – below is their description.
The remains of #JosephineBaker, a famed French-American dancer, singer and actress who also fought in the French resistance during WWII, will be moved to the #Pantheon mausoleum in November, an aide to President Emmanuel #Macron said Sunday. It will make Baker, who was born in Missouri in 1906 and buried in Monaco in 1975, the first Black woman to be laid to rest in the hallowed Parisian monument.
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